Testing – The Next Level
Erik Boelen
Telenet
The theme for the EuroSTAR Conference 2007 was ‘Defining the Profession’ and the discussion was ‘Are we a profession at all?’ Isabel Evans mentioned during her keynote session that testing is not yet as professional as we might think. She emphasized the areas of improvement testers need to go through in order to become a professional tester. As a result of this, Erik uses every occasion to ask testers about where they feel testing is at the moment. He gets many diverse answers, going from “In the starting blocks”, to “We’re finally getting some structure in our profession” to “The future is looking very bright for testers!” Based on all this information, Erik has started building his own view on ‘Where are we in testing?’ And even more important, ‘What are some of the challenges that we are currently facing?’
About Me!
Erik is a passionate test professional. As a test coordinator and test consultant, he has helped a large number of companies set up effective test processes. In addition to specializing in agile testing, Erik challenges traditional views of testing to better serve his clients in their specific needs. After having helped a specific client, Erik translates his learnings into specialized training materials, generalizing them in order to help other organizations deal with their specific problems.He is the founder of The Belgian Testers, a testing community within Belgium, currently having app. 700 members on Linkedin.